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 Birth Date: October 3, 1964
Birth Place: Keresley, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Clive Owen was born in Keresley, near Coventry, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. After college he joined the Young Vic and worked extensively on British television - including starring in the hit series Chancer and later, Second Sight.
His films have included the highly acclaimed Croupier with Alex Kingston, directed by Mike Hodges, Bent, The Bourne Identity with Matt Damon, Robert Altman's critical success, Gosford Park, on which he was part of a glittering ensemble cast, the contemporary thriller Beyond Borders with Angelina Jolie and more recently, Closer, with Julia Roberts and Jude Law. Clive has also featured in a series of short films for BMW cars.
Clive Owen's performance in the title role of Mike Hodges' sleeper hit Croupier had critics comparing him to the likes of Bogart, Mitchum, and Connery.
Owen first came to the U.K. public's attention as the star of the television series Chancer. U.S. audiences later saw him starring opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Jack Gold's telefilm adaptation of The Return of the Native, which aired on CBS. More recently, he starred in the BBC's Second Sight police dramas, in which he starred as DCI Ross Tanner, which aired on PBS's Mystery!
His U.K. telefilm credits also include Andrew Grieve's Lorna Doone, Andy Wilson's An Evening with Gary Lineker, Diarmuid Lawrence's The Echo, and David Blair's Split Second.
Owen's feature films also include Beeban Kidron's Vroom, Stephen Poliakoff's Close My Eyes, and Century, Sean Mathias' Bent, Joel Hershman's Greenfingers and Robert Altman's star-studded cast of Gosford Park. His acclaimed stage work includes portraying Romeo at the Young Vic, starring in Sean Mathias' staging of Noel Coward's Design for Living, and playing the lead role in Patrick Marber's original production of Closer at the Royal National Theater.
In the fall of 2001, he starred in London in Lawrence Boswell's staging of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and in “The Hire,” series of BMW Internet short features, in which he was directed by (respectively) John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Clive's next films only added to his already brilliant and diverse choice of film credits. He chose Beyond Borders, a romantic war drama co-starring Angelina Jolie, Mike Hodges thriller, I'll Sleep When I Am Dead, the action war drama, King Arthur and Sin City, which co-starred Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Toro, Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba.
In 2005, Clive won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Larry in Closer, directed by Mike Nichols. The film also starred Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman.
Owen was most recently seen starring opposite Jennifer Aniston in the thriller Derailed. Clive recently finished production on Spike Lee's Inside Man opposite Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster and is currently filming Children of Men, which co-stars Julianne Moore.
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